Lucanus is the Founder and Managing Partner of Calm/Storm Ventures, a founder network and boutique venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria. Prior to founding his own fund he was a General Partner at Speedinvest where he personally led investments focused on digital health companies including Playbrush, Ourpath, or Diagnosia. Before his time at Speedinvest, Lucanus was managing director of whatchado.com a portfolio company of Hansi Hansmann's "hansmengroup". Lucanus holds Master degrees in Entrepreneurship (WU Vienna) and International Management (CEMS). He is passionate about supporting founders with purpose who try to solve problems that really matter by leveraging his nearly 20 years of experience in business & corporate development. As a passionate sailor and father of 3, you'll find Lucanus spending his spare time with his kids on a boat.

Mark Corbidge, Managing Director, joined Sun European in 2019. Mark leads the firm’s European investment strategies from the London office. Mark has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, having transacted in business services, industrials, TMT and consumer across Europe. Prior to joining Sun European, Mark served as a Partner at TPG Capital where he was responsible for the industrials group in Europe. Previously Mr. Corbidge was Senior Principal for Direct Private Equity at CPPIB, and Co-Head of Private Equity at Doughty-Hanson. Mark is a volunteer member of the Finance Committee at The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and has been an active fundraiser for the charity over the past 20 years. Mark speaks French and German fluently as well as intermediate Dutch and Italian. Mark was awarded his Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons) from Middlesex University and from Groupe ESC Reims, France. Mark is a driven dealmaker who enjoys a challenge.

Staffan Mörndal is a Partner at Verdane, a Northern European specialist growth investor backing fast-growing, tech-enabled companies supported by the Digital Consumer, Software Everywhere and Sustainable Society megatrends. Originally an entrepreneur, Staffan joined Verdane in 2006 where he has helped build digital consumer companies like Boozt, MatHem and momox into some of Northern Europe’s most successful growth companies, with revenues reaching into the hundreds of millions of euros. At Verdane, Staffan focuses on the digital consumer and software sectors. He has played a key role in setting up and running its 14-strong Berlin-based team of investment professionals and operational experts that support nine Germany-based portfolio companies including momox, asgoodasnew, Hornetsecurity, Searchmetrics and Smava. Verdane is currently investing EUR10-100m+ equity tickets from its EUR540m Edda II and SEK6bn Verdane Capital X funds. Staffan holds an MBA from the University of Linköping, has studied computer programming at the Linköping Institute of Technology, business at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne centre PMF and has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School located in the United States.

Reinhard Vogt brings a wealth of industry knowledge and technology deal-side expertise to Dynamk Capital. He is instrumental in differentiating Dynamk by providing portfolio companies valuable guidance in all areas of commercialization as well as positioning for exit. Prior to joining Dynamk, he was the Executive VP and Member of the Board of Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A, a leading international partner to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, providing critical solutions for research, development and manufacturing. He was instrumental in building and transforming their filtration business from $30 million in the 90s, to what is now today the Sartorius Bioprocess Business of around $1.2 billion. He served as Executive VP and Member of the Board of Sartorius AG for over 10 years and has served as Director of 15 companies and Sartorius affiliates in his career.

Marko Maschek combines engineering education with entrepreneurial acumen. He grew up near Stuttgart and was an employee in the family-owned company during his school days. After his military service, he worked in consulting and software development patenting several developments in automotive applications. Marko has been a VC- / PE- an investor in Germany and the US since 1997 and co-founded Pinova and Marondo. He has been responsible for nearly 30 technology companies where some achieved a successful IPO. Marko earned a degree in electrical engineering from KIT, an advanced degree in computer sciences from INSA (Lyon) and an MBA from Cambridge.

Bill Liao is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism. Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of Weforest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator, RebelBio. He is a general partner of SOSV, a $750m venture capital fund and founder of the upcoming SOSV Momentum Pre-accelerator program.

Cansu is Senior Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC, where she leads on fundraising for their investment vehicles. Previously, she was with the global accelerator Startupbootcamp, first building their MENA branch in conjunction with a micro-fund in Istanbul, then scaling their industrial IoT program to London and running it. She has been in the tech industry as a founder, operator, and early-stage investor for a decade. Her background is in international politics and human rights law, before going into investment she worked with IGOs and NGOs like Amnesty International, the Council of Europe, and the UN in Turkey and France. Currently based in London, she is an ambassador for the UK Government’s Tier 1 Tech Nation Exceptional Talent scheme.